Zhenxiang (Zeke) Chen

• SOC 2292 - Understanding Social Research
• SOC 4570 - Quantitative Social Analysis
• SOC 4580 - Social Research Methods

Zhenxiang (Zeke) Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Manitoba. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on the social stratification, mobility, and inequality of migrants, with an emphasis on the assimilation and integration of rural-to-urban migrants and international migrants from the life-course and social psychology perspectives. Methodologically, he is interested in causal inference and using quantitative, computational, and experimental methods to answer his research questions.
 

• PhD (Sociology), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2021
• MA (Sociology), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2018
• MPP, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), 2016
• BA (Economics, Mathematics, and International Studies), University of Wisconsin Madison, 2013

Research interests

• Migration
• Assimilation and integration
• Life course 
• Social psychology
• Quantitative methods
   

• Chen, Zhenxiang. Forthcoming “From Identity Assimilation to Civic Assimilation: A Multidimensional Framework of Assimilation to Unveil Pathways to Civic Engagement Through the Global Perspective.” Journal of International Migration and Integration.
• Soehl, Thomas, Zhenxiang Chen, and Aaron Erlich. Forthcoming. “Promises and Limits of Using Targeted Social Media Advertising to Sample Global Migrant Populations: Nigerians at Home and Abroad.” Sociological Methods and Research. 
• Chen, Zhenxiang. 2023. “Economic Integration of Temporary and Permanent Migrants: Between Migrant and Return Migrant Status.” Habitat International 140: 102910.
• Chen, Zhenxiang. 2023. “How Legal Patterns over Lifetime of Migration Shape Migrants’ Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Mexican Migrants in the US.” Population, Space and Place 29(5): 1-15.
• Chen, Zhenxiang. 2023. “How Parental Migration affects Left-behind and Migrant Children’s Aspirations: From Comparative and Multidimensional Perspectives.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9: 1-12.
• Chen, Zhenxiang and Xiaoguang Fan. 2022. “Intention and Perceived Control: International Migrants’ Assimilation in China.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 23(4): 2075–2100.
• Chen, Zhenxiang and Xiaoguang Fan. 2022. “Transnationalism and Migrant Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Self-Employed Foreigners in Hangzhou, China.” Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship 34(4): 443-474.
• Chen, Zhenxiang, Yao Lu, and Donald J. Treiman. 2022. “Determinants and Consequences of Rural-to-urban Migration Patterns in China: Evidence from Sequence Analysis.” Population, Space and Place 28(2): 1-28.
• Chen, Zhenxiang. 2021. “Exploring Assimilation as a Combination of Objective and Subjective Process: A Case Study of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China.” International Journal of Population Studies 7(2): 1-14.
• Chen, Zhenxiang. 2021. “How the choice of reference group matters: economic integration of rural-to-urban migrants in China.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 47(19): 4428-4456.